Art holds a mirror up to Nature. The Buckets come along, turn the mirror on Art and say, “Look how goofy you’re acting. Now get to work, Art. Your kids need an Xbox 360.”
The Buckets comic strip isn’t a parody of family life. Parodies are filled with hearts and rainbows or enraged tirades and dramatic confrontation. The Buckets, though? Nope. Real life, baby. It’s funny because it’s on a page and not in your house at the moment. Next week, when it’s happening to you, you’ll thank us for reminding you that it’s supposed to be funny.
Greg Cravens looks in the mirror and see not himself, but all of us. And then he draws up the silly, grand, goofy, thrilling, utterly human things we do and calls it The Buckets.
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Pacopuddy said, 4 months ago
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2001 is probably the least fascinating film ever produced – oh, wait – no. I forgot ‘Mr and Mrs Smith’
afficionado said, 4 months ago
@Pacobuddy
You forgot GIGLI
RanaRavens said, 4 months ago
@Pacopuddy
It’s a joke about how for kids the year 2001 is long enough ago that it feels like history to them.
inshadowz said, 4 months ago
@Pacopuddy
Oh, I wouldn’t say “2001” isn’t fascinating. Quite the contrary. But I learned long ago that the world is made up of two kinds of people: those who love “2001”, and those who hate it … and the less loving half is dominated by people who, among other things, prefer to fast-forward through the landscape scenes and dialogue of “The Lord Of The Rings” to get to the gory action bits.
Other than that, what RanaRavens said :)
Shirl Summ
said, 4 months ago
yup, patience is a virtue.
nighthawks
said, 4 months ago
open the pod bay doors, Hal.
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Hal. do you read me?
olddog1 said, 4 months ago
@nighthawks
I can’t do that, Dave.
OldestandWisest said, 4 months ago
If back in 1963 (when I was 11) when both we and the Russians were setting new space exploration milestones almost every day, someone told me that in 50 years manned space flight would have gone no farther than the moon and that we hadn’t even been back to the moon for almost 40 years, I would have said they were crazy. (sigh)
pschearer
said, 4 months ago
I remember when Orwell’s “1984” was in the far distant future. (The “2001: A Space Odyssey” sequel was called “2010”. Recent history.)
Pacopuddy said, 4 months ago
@RanaRavens
It’s a joke about how for kids the year 2001 is long enough ago that it feels like history to them.
inshadowz said,
@Pacopuddy
Oh, I wouldn’t say “2001” isn’t fascinating. Quite the contrary. But I learned long ago that the world is made up of two kinds of people: those who love “2001”, and those who hate it … and the less loving half is dominated by people who, among other things, prefer to fast-forward through the landscape scenes and dialogue of “The Lord Of The Rings” to get to the gory action bits.
Other than that, what RanaRavens said :)
Thank you both – I understood the joke, I just have never understood the cult status of ‘2001’ (and inshadowz – you are right, I can’t be bothered with the interminable trudging through snow/ over mountains/ across rivers etc etc etc that fills the “Ring” trilogy . . . )
Jerry Carlson said, 4 months ago
I used to to subscribe to Discover and Omni magazines, and half kidded that by the time I got aroung to reading them they’d be history magazines.
Comic Minister said, 4 months ago
2001 is a tough history especially at 9/11.
Liverlips McCracken
said, 4 months ago
@Jerry Carlson
Amen to that, Jerry.
Liverlips McCracken
said, 4 months ago
It’s like I always say: “Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.”
kaecispop said, 4 months ago
What about Robert A Heinlien’s “Door Into Summer”? 1972 was a generation away at time the story started.